How to interface with third party API using URLs

[Devin Asay]

Pete,

See my notes at http://livecode.byu.edu/indexgeneric.php under Web Services. Pretty basic, and I may be missing some important points, but it might get you started.

Devin

> On Nov 6, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a project that requires I learn about using URLs to
> interface to a third party API.  I have been given php code that does what
> I need so I could just execute the php scrips from LC and grab the output.
> But should I ever need to make changes to the php code, I wouldn't know
> where to start so would prefer to implement this with Livecode.
> 
> I have all the necessary URLs and they return "a REST-compliant XML feed" .
> Can someone point me to a lesson of some sort that would point me in the
> right direction?
> 
> Pete
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Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University